Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-31

pete for prizes in the show rings at the Min
nesota state fair this season. The Com
modore thinks his stock has already taken
hopes that all breeders may exhibit their
stock at the coming fair. On account of the
known speed Of Also he has been with
drawn from the three-year-old stakes and
Asteroid will be started instead. 49,.
The total value of personal property
in Wabasha county, as fixed by the county
board of equalization, foots up at S1.2:3,7 67.
The amount returned by the assessors was
81, l23, l5S, the country board adding $780,
Guy thereto, amounting in the aggregate to
an excess Of $50, ZIG over the return for the
year 1856. The real estate valuation is
based upon the assessment Of last year and
amounts to $3,46, .92, making the total real
and personal property valuation OF the
county S., l70,559.
Charles Winship, who was shot at
Freeport, ILL.,, by David B. Staples, is now
in a fair way to recovery. DR.. J. H. Murray,
the Winship family physician, assisted DR.:
G. D. Coulter cut the bullet from Winship's
breast. 1t was found between the third and
fourth ribs Immediately over the heart and
at the edge of the breast bone. Now that
the ball has been removed his rapid recov-
cry is hoped for. The wounded mans faith
er, mother aud brother are at Freeport.
A banquet was given at St. Paul,
Mimi, Tuesday evening to Senator James
B. Beck, attended by large party of repre-
sentative citizens, including Ex-senator
Ramsey, Hon. W. p Murray, Gen Sibley,
Senator e. K. Davis, Mayor Ames Mime
aPolis Hon. Albert Schefer, Hon. P. H.
Kelley, Gen. Ruger, U. S. A., Ex-Gov.
Marshall and many others. The guest Of
the evening and other gentlemen responded
to the toasts.
George Fitzgibbons, who was confined
in the Anoka lookup to await the meeting of
the grand jury on the charge of stealing $50.
escaped from the Jail by fling off two of the
bars to his cell door: he requested the guard
to 60 out and get him some fresh water,
which the officer did, leaving the door open.
When he returned Fitzgibbons had skipped.
The file was left in the Jail by careless tin
ner, who had been doing some work in the
prison.
At Albert Lea, Mimi, the seven men
charged with robbing the money drawer Of
John Paul's lumber office were held for pet
ty larceny, only S13 having been found
about them; but later search revealed a
S2O gold-piece in the mouth Of one of the
prisoners, so the charge was changed to
grand larceny, and the prisoners held to
of them had been previously discharged.
Sixty-seven young ladies of Milwaukee
took the white veil at Notre Dame convent
Monday. The clergy present were Arch
bishop Heiss, Rev. Father Zeiringen,
president of St. Francis seminary, Rev.
P. M. Abbelan, chaplain of the convent, Rev.
Anton J: Decker. OF st. Anthony's church,
Rev. William Newk, pastor of ST. Michaers
church
brated the ceremony of the profession.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul has re-
duced the tariff on hard coal from Chicago,
Milwaukee and Racine to all points west of
the Mississippi river. The rate to st. Paul
and Minneapolis remains the same. The
old rate to Faribault was $3.50 per ton, new
rate $50; to Albert Lea the same; to
Woonsocket, OAK. old rate $3.50, new rate,
1915. The reduction to all Dakota points
has been about IS cents per ton.
E. Stone, of Elmira, n: Y, was kill
ed at Van Gorders stone quarry on the Wis
consin bluffs opposite Winona, MINI. While,
examining q car that had got off the track a.
stone rolled down from the bluff and crushed
the head of unfortunate man. MIR. Stone
was SO years of age and leaves a wife and
married daughter at Elmira and son en-
ployed in the Minneapolis & Pacific r. R.
office at Minneapolis.
At Polish wedding in the suburbs
of Milwaukee, Wis, the buys Of the neigh
borhood pelted the house with stones. When
August Duak, a guest, attempted to dis
perse them the crowd set upon him with
sticks and stones. His Efeless body was
found on the street with bis neck broken.
The assailantS are unknown.
The Lawyers and Editors of Mime
apolis, Mimi, INDUCED an amatuer game Of
base ball on Thursday, the gate proceeds
&C., to 20 to Mrs. Tolafson, widow OF the
murdered street car driver. The score Of
the game was in favor of the Lawyers, but
the purse secured for the poor widow
appropriated 500.
Harmon, Mimi, special: One of the
largest fires ever known at this place occur
red when the Pomme de Terre Touring mills
were burned, with the elevator. The origin
of the fire is mystery. The loss is $4,000.
Insurance unknown. 1t is not known wheth-
er the mills will be rebuilt.
The Wisconsin Central has made q
rate for sheep in TERED cars between st.
Paul, Minneapolis or Minnesota transfer
and Chicrgo and Milwaukee of SIS, and 10
cents per 100 pounds on hard coal between
the same points.